Monsoon Multimedia Combines Apple iPad with Vulkano to Create Stunning TV and Movie Experience
On 07/28/2010,
in convergence, digital video,
by Daniel Christian
On 07/23/2010,
in Apple, convergence, disruption, usability, user experience (UX), user interface design,
by Daniel Christian
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http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/abc-digital-releases-abc-news-for-ipad/
On 07/21/2010,
in convergence, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, personalized/customized learning, social learning / networks, social media,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
What if we had a “textbook” like this? One that targeted your social/learning network on a particular topic? Personalized…customized…and constantly up-to-date. Interesting…
(Quality may or may not be a concern…depending upon one’s social/learning network.)
On 07/01/2010,
in convergence, digital video, disruption, emerging technologies, game-changing environment, interaction design, interactivity, technologies for your home,
by Daniel Christian
Interactive TV Today – News, Interviews, Research on Multiplatform Digital Interactive TV — via Lynn Marentette
On 06/01/2010,
in Apple, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, convergence, technologies for your home,
by Daniel Christian
Today’s vision of tomorrow: Apple TV, revamped, rocketed into the cloud — from Fast Company by Kit Eaton
The Apple TV may be about to graduate from a “hobby” project into a world-beater, if leaked info that’s reached Engagdet proves true. It’s set to rival Google’s TV offering, and will see Apple embrace cloud-based content streaming for the first time.
On 05/21/2010,
in convergence, Google, multimedia, technologies for your home, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
On 05/20/2010,
in convergence, digital storytelling, digital video, disruption, Google, multimedia, online media,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Another example of convergence; one that will eventually [positively] affect the K-20 world and what we are able to offer.
Also see:
On 05/19/2010,
in convergence, digital audio, digital video, technologies for your home, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
On 05/13/2010,
in convergence, digital video, mobile learning, mobile technologies,
by Daniel Christian
On 05/03/2010,
in convergence,
by Daniel Christian
On 04/20/2010,
in convergence, digital audio, digital video, technologies for your home,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
This is yet another example of the massive convergence taking place these days.
On 04/12/2010,
in convergence, creativity, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital video, engagement / engaging students, multimedia, student-related,
by Daniel Christian
On 04/12/2010,
in Apple, convergence,
by Daniel Christian
Apple goes where the portals failed — from wired.co.uk
Six months ago, an Apple analyst told me he thought the company’s long-term goal was to become the internet’s cable TV company. I didn’t get it then. I really get it now. Most think of Apple as a computer or consumer electronics company. I think that’s becoming a means to a much bigger end: becoming a giant news, entertainment and communications network with Googillian ambitions (emphasis from DSC –> and this will open up possibilities for education as well).
I’ll leave the goodness or badness of Apple’s ambitions to others. What is not debatable, however, is that what Apple is doing has the potential to be a colossally huge business.
Cable TV companies’ are always constrained by their capital costs (laying and maintaining all that cable). Apple has none of those worries. It appears that for the moment all it has to do is keep making killer devices and software, and the rest will take care of itself.
Devices like the iPad and iPhone generate audience, which attracts advertisers (a business Apple just said it was plunging into), which attracts content. It doesn’t hurt that Apple has been proven to be one of the few online platforms capable of charging for digital content.
On 04/06/2010,
in Apple, convergence,
by Daniel Christian
In Apple news: iPad, iAd and iPhone 4.0 — from Philip Elmer-DeWitt
On 03/26/2010,
in convergence, digital video, mobile technologies, online media, telecommunications,
by Daniel Christian
Apps battling to bring movies to your phone — from CNN Tech by Eliot Van Buskirk
Video rental companies made big moves this week in the race to deliver movies to phones.
But as compelling as [the] thought of a movie in your pocket alone may be, this isn’t just about delivering content to handset.
The companies vying for your mobile movie dollars want to tie you to an ecosystem they hope will change your habits — and loyalties — at home, at work and in between (emphasis DSC).
All of them believe that owning mobile is a ticket to winning the other three screens — computers, televisions and tablets — because viewers want to pick up on one screen where they left off on another, just as they do when reading an Amazon Kindle e-book (emphasis DSC).
If they are right, the battle plan seems fairly clear: Winning the smartphone puts everything into play and makes the mobile device the key entry point to a video-on-demand lifestyle, way beyond its mundane ability to manage rental queues on the go.
From DSC:
How this situation turns out may very well impact the delivery of educational content. The convergence continues…but more and more, providing mobile access to content is becoming key.